Tan is an astute storyteller, enticing readers to immerse themselves into these lives of complexity and mystery. Mothers boast or despair over daughters, and daughters roll their eyes even as they feel the inextricable tightening of their matriarchal ties. As each woman reveals her secrets, trying to unravel the truth about her life, the strings become more tangled, more entwined.

With wit and sensitivity, Amy Tan examines the sometimes painful, often tender, and always deep connection between mothers and daughters. Their daughters, who have never heard these stories, think their mothers' advice is irrelevant to their modern American lives – until their own inner crises reveal how much they've unknowingly inherited of their mothers' pasts. The Joy Luck Club (1989), The Kitchen Gods Wife (1991), The Bonesetters Daughter (2001) e The Valley of Amazement (2013) sono alcune delle sue opere letterarie selezionate per unanalisi approfondita del tema. United in loss and new hope for their daughters' futures, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Tuttavia, altre opere narrative e non di Amy Tan sono state discusse proprio in base alle esigenze del contesto. In 1949, four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, meet weekly to play mahjong and tell stories of what they left behind in China.

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Or to prolong what was already unbearable.” Forty years later the stories and history continue. “To despair was to wish back for something already lost. Rather than sink into tragedy, they choose to gather to raise their spirits and money. United in shared unspeakable loss and hope, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk.

Amy Tan’s beloved, New York Times bestselling tale of mothers and daughtersįour mothers, four daughters, four families whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who’s “saying” the stories.

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